Geraldine Richmond, UO professor of chemistry, will travel as a U.S. Science Envoy to Thailand and Vietnam this month. Her trip, the first by a U.S. Science Envoy to those nations, is profiled in Voice of America.

Research by UO musicologist Marian Smith helped choreographer Alexi Ratmansky to painstakingly recreate the 1881 ballet "Paquita" for a recent Munich production. The ballet earned a rave review from The New York Times.